Newsmaker: Sushil Kumar Modi, the return of GST's troubleshooter

His second term as Bihar deputy CM and finance minister sees the politician back in stamping ground of the GST regime

All that has changed is where he will live. In all other aspects, it is as if time had stood still for Sushil Kumar Modi, who is going to swap places with Tejashwi Yadav to move into his bungalow at 5 Desh Ratna Marg, Patna, while Yadav shifts to Modi’s current house at 1 Polo Road. Modi is deputy chief minister and finance minister of Bihar and is — more or less — back in his old job of soothing feathers ruffled by the goods and services tax (GST).

He is good at this. He headed the GST Task Force